Who were the big bands in 1940s?

Glenn Miller, Harry James, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Charlie Barnet, Jimmy Barnett, Bix Biederbeck, Fats Carlson, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kaiser, Dick Jurgens, Duke Ellington,Count Basie, Blue Barron, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Charlie Spivak, Eddy Howard, Tommy Tucker, Chuck Foster, Ray Bauduc, Sammy Kaye, Henry Busse, Billy Butterfield, Russ Carlyle, Jack Teagarden, Claude Thornhill, Orrin Tucker, Woody Herman, Lawrence Welk, Paul Whiteman, Erskine Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Jerry Gray, Glen Gray, Jan Garber, Russ Morgan, Ralph Flanagan, Sonny Dunhan, Bunny Berigan, Francis Craig, Gene Krupa, Carmen Cavallaro, Frankie Carle, Ray Anthony.

There were many more bands in the forties but these are all that come to mind at this time.